Gene Krupa

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

The drummer Gene Krupa came from Chicago and became, in the swing years, the first drummer to be seen as a star. In 1927 he was one of the first to have the bass drum heard on a record. He played with Benny Goodman from 1934; his tom-toms in Sing, Sing, Sing made the drummer the centre of the stage. In 1938 he started his own big band, in which, from 1941, the singer Anita O'Day and the trumpeter Roy Eldridge performed. Eldridge was one of the first Black musicians to play regularly in a white big band. Krupa's playing was loud and theatrical, and he made the drum solo popular with a wide audience.

Listening

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  Let Me Off Uptown · Gene Krupa, 1941
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  Drum Boogie · Gene Krupa, 1941
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  Drummin' Man · Gene Krupa, 1939
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  Rockin' Chair · Gene Krupa, 1941

Discography

Studio albums

• 1956Drummer Man
• 1956Krupa and Rich
• 1956Playing Some Of The Selections They Played In The Benny Goodman Movie
• 1957Krupa Rocks
• 1962Burnin Beat
• 1962Classics In Percussion!
• 2005Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements
• 2020The Mighty Two
• ?The Exciting Gene Krupa

Other work

• 1938Sing, Sing, Sing · Benny Goodman
• 1941Let Me Off Uptown · with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge
• 1941Drum Boogie

In School of Rock

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• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 1^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Drum kit with bass drum pedal TechnologyChick Webb and Gene Krupa made it, in swing, an instrument for spectacular solos.

See also

• The Mighty Two
• Swing and big band
• Drum kit with bass drum pedal